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Outdoors Ink: Field & Stream's 2012 Hunting and Fishing Tattoo Contest Winners
Outdoors Ink: Field & Stream's 2012 Hunting and Fishing Tattoo Contest Winners
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Andrew Kenner (26) from Santa Cruz, CA. Assistant Engineer in the U.S. Forest Service stationed in Arroyo Seco. Live on Pinto Lake and have been fishing my whole life. This is my first and only tattoo and I went big. 25 hours at Staircase Tattoos from artist Doug Love.
Andrew Kenner (26) from Santa Cruz, CA. Assistant Engineer in the U.S. Forest Service stationed in Arroyo Seco. Live on Pinto Lake and have been fishing my whole life. This is my first and only tattoo and I went big. 25 hours at Staircase Tattoos from artist Doug Love.
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We asked our readers to take photos of their best hunting-, fishing- or shooting-themed tattoos and post them to our site for a chance to win some awesome knives from Gerber. Our editors looked through each entry and have now chosen their picks for the 50 best. Here they are, in order, with the top three winners first!
Congratulations to Andrew Kenner, the first-place winner, who will receive a Gerber Silver Trident knife($269). The second-place prize, a Gerber Combat Fixed Blade ($154) knife goes to Mikey2970 and, in third place, Eric Hornung will get a Gerber Mark II knife ($116).
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Comments (15)
I would love to get a fishing tattoo!
I would go with 4 and 28.
Photo 50 is awesome
27 rocked!
been thinkin about an outdoors tatt, love the ideas i got from these photos!
Sorry guys, I just dont see the attraction... I will say, some of the tats are quite artistic, and some... well arent...
These should really start looking great, a couple or three of decades from now.
Fish & Wildlife Ink just isn't my thing, nor is any so-called "body art" - just leave it for the sailors, old hippies and druggies.
Hey, canardnoir, you forgot to insult us bikers!
A-hole!
canardnoir, your quote is a tattoo of the tongue and we will remember it... forever...
Pretty sure when I'm 70 I would LOVE to be reminded of the good times and care even less about what people think.
I just haven't found the design to permeantly attach to my body. After watching a tat being made in Korea, my hate of needles also has me waiting. A Smith & Wesson model 29 .44 mag would be on the top of my list, maybe with a San Franciso police badge added to honor Dirty Harry.
Artistic or not, what it looks like in 30 years, none of it matters. The reason you don't understand my tattoo is the same reason I don't understand mikey2970's tattoo. I did not spend 25 years hunting with his grandfather making the memories that will last a lifetime no matter what the tattoo looks like. Had you spent the time fishing with my grandfather like I did you might understand why I want to keep those memories alive in my mind. Everytime someone asks me why a trout tattoo, I get to share the stories and relive the moments that I would not trade for anything.
Artistic or not, what it looks like in 30 years, none of it matters. The reason you don't understand my tattoo is the same reason I don't understand mikey2970's tattoo. I did not spend 25 years hunting with his grandfather making the memories that will last a lifetime no matter what the tattoo looks like. Had you spent the time fishing with my grandfather like I did you might understand why I want to keep those memories alive in my mind. Everytime someone asks me why a trout tattoo, I get to share the stories and relive the moments that I would not trade for anything.
I'm guessing mr04268 meant that he DID understand Mikey2970's tattoo. I'm terrified of needles too but I love Michael's (mikey2970) tattoos! He has enough for the both of us. ;) I'm so proud of you, Michael!!
my point was that even though I know why he got it, it is a tattoo that I would never choose to put on my body. That is the great thing about the tattoo's it's your body, your choice and when it comes right down to it you are the only one that has to live with it.
Please tell me that all of these tattoo's are the kind that will wash off rite, I do like the one with Fred Bear, got to be a true archer...
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Hey, canardnoir, you forgot to insult us bikers!
A-hole!
canardnoir, your quote is a tattoo of the tongue and we will remember it... forever...
Pretty sure when I'm 70 I would LOVE to be reminded of the good times and care even less about what people think.
I would love to get a fishing tattoo!
I would go with 4 and 28.
Photo 50 is awesome
27 rocked!
been thinkin about an outdoors tatt, love the ideas i got from these photos!
Sorry guys, I just dont see the attraction... I will say, some of the tats are quite artistic, and some... well arent...
I just haven't found the design to permeantly attach to my body. After watching a tat being made in Korea, my hate of needles also has me waiting. A Smith & Wesson model 29 .44 mag would be on the top of my list, maybe with a San Franciso police badge added to honor Dirty Harry.
Artistic or not, what it looks like in 30 years, none of it matters. The reason you don't understand my tattoo is the same reason I don't understand mikey2970's tattoo. I did not spend 25 years hunting with his grandfather making the memories that will last a lifetime no matter what the tattoo looks like. Had you spent the time fishing with my grandfather like I did you might understand why I want to keep those memories alive in my mind. Everytime someone asks me why a trout tattoo, I get to share the stories and relive the moments that I would not trade for anything.
Artistic or not, what it looks like in 30 years, none of it matters. The reason you don't understand my tattoo is the same reason I don't understand mikey2970's tattoo. I did not spend 25 years hunting with his grandfather making the memories that will last a lifetime no matter what the tattoo looks like. Had you spent the time fishing with my grandfather like I did you might understand why I want to keep those memories alive in my mind. Everytime someone asks me why a trout tattoo, I get to share the stories and relive the moments that I would not trade for anything.
I'm guessing mr04268 meant that he DID understand Mikey2970's tattoo. I'm terrified of needles too but I love Michael's (mikey2970) tattoos! He has enough for the both of us. ;) I'm so proud of you, Michael!!
my point was that even though I know why he got it, it is a tattoo that I would never choose to put on my body. That is the great thing about the tattoo's it's your body, your choice and when it comes right down to it you are the only one that has to live with it.
Please tell me that all of these tattoo's are the kind that will wash off rite, I do like the one with Fred Bear, got to be a true archer...
These should really start looking great, a couple or three of decades from now.
Fish & Wildlife Ink just isn't my thing, nor is any so-called "body art" - just leave it for the sailors, old hippies and druggies.
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